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‘Speed Racer’ quiz

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Everyone knows ‘Speed Racer’ is a gigantic, astounding, mesmerizingly collosal flop, a movie that cost $150 million to make (not counting another $50 million or so to market) that has barely cracked the $42 million mark after a month in the theaters. This past weekend it dropped off an eye-popping 84% from its previous weekend’s performance, making a miniscule $360,000 in 855 theaters. It’s overseas performance has been anemic as well, barely hitting $36 million. Even a stream of bad reviews (average score on Metacritic: 37) couldn’t stop addled summer moviegoers from avoiding it like the plague. Check out this intriguing essay if you want to know which well-known newsweekly critic gave it a rave, which critic somehow compared it--unfavorably--to ‘McCabe and Mrs. Miller’ and which critic said, after seeing the film, that he ‘lost the will to live.’

But back to our point: just how bad is that $42 million box-office figure? Let see if you can guess which of the following movies has somehow managed to make less money than ‘Speed Racer,’ which according to our favorite box-office tracking site, is at $42.0 million.

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1) ‘College Road Trip’

2) ‘Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins’

3) ‘Nim’s Island’

4) ‘Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium’

5) ‘Golden Compass’

And the answer is:

‘Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium,’ which made $32 million in its brief, forlorn, unlamented stay in theaters late last year.

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